I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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"It's like you advertised that this person can perform Iai Slash with a 5-foot-long long sword, but when he arrives at the scene, he only uses a 3-foot-long ordinary knife to perform it. It will make the guests feel like they have been cheated. of."

"Filling in the vacancies of guards and assistants is easier said than done."

"If it's just to get through tonight, the guards can temporarily not look for someone with great skills, but the character must be trustworthy."

"The assistant has to be a pretty young girl."

"Only by assigning beautiful women as Chuguang's assistants can we best package Chuguang and raise Chuguang's worth."

"Chuguang's former assistant, Ah Tong, is a beautiful girl who is qualified to be the number one in any girl's house."

"Although there are many beautiful girls in our Seven Grass House, they are all wandering girls. They are very busy every night, and it is not appropriate to let a wandering girl serve as an artist's assistant."

"Whether it's a guard or an assistant, even for me, it's extremely difficult to find a suitable person to fill this vacancy in less than half a day."

"Just when I was in a state of desperation, you guys came here."

"Then among you, there are exactly the two kinds of people I urgently need right now, people who are beautiful enough, and people who are qualified for the job of guard."

"To me now, you are the timely rain."

Satodaemon's explanation was finally over.

Ogata, who understood the cause and effect, nodded: "I see."

"You are all friends of Fu-kun." Saidaemon added at this time, "So I have great confidence in your character."

"And to be honest, I have no choice but to ask you guys now."

Satodaemon's expression became bitter at this moment.

"Apart from you, before dark, I probably won't be able to find a girl who is beautiful enough, and a warrior who is willing to replace the guard."

To put it simply, you, who are in a hurry to find someone to replace the vacancy of guards and assistants, are you using a dead horse as a living horse doctor?

Ogata summed up in his mind what Sodaemon said just now in one sentence.

"I just need to replace him for one night tonight, right?" Ogata asked the right and left Tianemon back.

"Yes." Satodaemon nodded, "As long as we can survive tonight, it will be easy to talk about later."

"Tonight Chuguang only needs to perform at the banquet of the distinguished guests of the Xutian House. There is no need to go to multiple places to perform."

"In order to maintain the price and dignity of Chuguang, I only allow Chuguang to perform in one place every night."

"Will Chu Guang leave immediately after the performance?" Ogata asked.

"Yes." Left and right Tianweimen nodded again, "Chuguang will play three pieces at the banquet tonight, after the performance, she will leave, and after escorting Chuguang back, your work will be completed .”

"I have an ugly scar on my face." Ogata continued to ask, "So I don't like to take off my bamboo hat and face scarf. When I take over the post of guard, can I not take off these two things?"

"Huh?" Zuo Tianwei raised his eyebrows, "Can't you take off your face scarf and bamboo hat?"

"Yes. Because I don't want anyone to see the scar on my face."

Right now, Mashidaemon's expression suddenly became weird.

He looked at Fuma, and then at Ogata.

He opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

In the end, Yoshidaemon closed his mouth, nodded after a moment of contemplation:

"Yes. It doesn't matter if you insist on wearing a hat and a face scarf. After all, the position you need to take over is just a guard."

Ogata murmured.

After pondering for a moment, he turned to A-cho and asked:

"Machi, would you like to be that Chuguang's temporary assistant tonight?"

"I can." Ah-Machi replied without thinking, "Anyway, it's not time-consuming or labor-intensive, just helping others hold the shamisen."

"That's good." Ogata nodded, and then turned his gaze back to Yoshidaemon, "Then my wife and I will help you with this tonight, I hope you can fulfill your promise in the future, and inform the second master of the residence Give us."

"Brother." Feng Mo raised his eyebrows, "You and Komachi are really going to be that Chu Guang's guards and assistants?"

"We do someone a favor, and then they also do us a favor, mutual benefit, this is reasonable." Ogata smiled, "Anyway, it's not such a troublesome favor that they ask us to do."

"Thank you very much." At this time, Satodaemon bowed to Ogata and saluted, "I assure you that after the incident, I will immediately tell you the address of Yoji, and I will never break my promise."

After finishing speaking, Yoshidaemon opened the cabinet next to him, took out two things that looked like waist cards from the cabinet, and handed them to Ogata and Atachi.

"These two things, you take them."

"At six o'clock in the evening today, you will come to this seven-grass house again. After showing this sign to the gatekeeper, the gatekeeper will lead you to Chuguang's room."

"After that, you all just need to follow Chuguang to Xutian House to perform."

After promising that Satodaemon would help him with this favor, Ogata and the others left Nanakusa House.

It's still only morning, and there is still half a day before the [-]:[-] pm agreed with Zuo Tianweimen.

In order to pass the time, Feng Mo continued to go to his old subordinate Xianbingwei alone to catch up.

The three of them, Ogata, A-machi, and Azuki, took to the streets like yesterday, wandering around in Osaka.

Since leaving Ezodi and returning to the mainland of Japan, Ogata has basically never rested. He is either on the road or preparing to go on the road every day. Therefore, Ogata is also willing to hang out in this strange city of Osaka. Relax your tense nerves.

Wandering around aimlessly, admiring the scenery of Osaka which is very different from Kyoto and Edo.

Half a day is fleeting.

Ogata and A-machi returned to the gate of Nanakusa House very punctually at six o'clock in the evening as agreed with Satodaemon.

As for Azuki, who was a little tired from wandering around Osaka with Ogata and Acho all day long, when Ogata and the others were about to return to Nanakusa House, she parted ways with them and returned to the hotel where they were staying alone went to rest

After returning to Nanakusa House, according to what Sodaemon said this morning, he showed the sign he gave to the two to the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper immediately took the two into Nanakusa House and went straight to Nanakusa House on the second floor, leading the two into a room on the second floor.

It was a very simple room.

There is almost no furniture in the room, just a few cushions.

In this extremely simple room, there is only a big man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, sitting in the center of the room holding a sword and a wakizasa.

Seeing Ogata and Atachi, the big man immediately stood up and greeted them warmly.

"Oh! The two of you must be the couple who the boss told me about this afternoon and are responsible for temporarily replacing Ikeda and A-Tong!"

"I'm meeting you for the first time! I'm Masaki Shibata! I'm Miss Chuguang's only remaining guard after that kid Ikeda eloped with Tong! Please give me your advice!"

According to the self-introduction of this big man, he should be one of the two original guards of Chuguang or the only one left.

After another guard: Ikeda and Chuguang's assistant: Tong eloped, he is the only one left by Chuguang's side now.

"It's our first meeting, Goro Mashima."

"I'm Mashima-cho. Please give me your advice."

Ogata's first impression of Shibata was very good. He has always had a good impression of this kind of enthusiastic and cheerful person.

The whole gourd house has the best relationship with Ogata, and at the same time Ogata's favorite person is Mucun. The main reason is because Mucun happens to be the kind of enthusiastic and cheerful person that Ogata likes very much.

After introducing themselves to each other, Ogata began to carefully look at the room under his feet: "Shibata-kun, is this Miss Chuguang's room?"

Ogata remembered that this morning, Satodaemon told him that after showing the sign to the gatekeeper, the gatekeeper would take them to Chuguang's room.

To be honest, this room with nothing but cushions makes it hard for Ogata to believe that this is the room of a popular star.

As soon as Ogata's question came to an end, Shibata nodded vigorously: "This is indeed Miss Chuguang's room, but it's not the room where she lives, but the room where she practices the piano."

"She usually practices piano in this room. Because it's just a room for practicing piano, the layout is quite simple."

Ogata: "That's how it is"

"You guys sit down first." Shibata made a "please" gesture to the two of them, "Miss Chuguang is putting on makeup now, and she won't come back until a while, please sit down and rest for a while."

Ogata and A-Machi each took a cushion and sat down.

The three of them kept silent, and it was quite embarrassing, so in order not to make the atmosphere more awkward, Machi immediately asked Shibata as soon as he sat on the cushion:

"By the way, Shibata-kun, is Miss Chuguang's nickname her flower name, or her real name?"

"Well, I don't know about this." Shibata smiled wryly and shook his head, "Miss Chuguang never told me whether her name was her real name or her flower name."

"But I guess it's probably a flower name."

"The name Chuguang doesn't seem like his real name. It's quite common for artists to give themselves nicknames."

After A-Machi got started, the three of them started chatting with each other in this small room.

Shibata didn't ask why Ogata was wearing a bamboo hat and a face scarf all the time, probably because Satodaemon had told Shibata today why Ogata was wearing a bamboo hat and a face scarf.

Chatting with each other one after another, time flows like a river without stopping.

The sky, which was just gray just now, turned completely black in the blink of an eye.

Just when Ogata felt a little impatient thinking about "Miss Hatsumitsu still coming", he finally heard the sound of the door of the room being pulled open.

Along with the sound of pulling the door, there was a beautiful female voice.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting."

Ogata turned around quickly.

The person who opened the door was a very beautiful girl.

Wearing a light blue kimono, a pair of white and thin gloves, light makeup, and a neat Shimada bun, he looks very young, at most 17 or 8 years old, with fair skin, big eyes and Youshen, holding a shamisen with a very exquisite appearance.

After the girl appeared, Shibata who was sitting across from Ogata stood up quickly.

"Miss Chuguang! Good evening!"

Hearing Shibata's voice, Ogata hastily cast his eyes on the beautiful woman again.

Is she the first light?

While looking at Chuguang with sizing eyes, Ogata's movements were not slow at all. He quickly got up and saluted Chuguang, and then said loudly:

"It's our first time meeting, Miss Hatsune. I'm Mashima Goro."

"I'm Mashima-machi." A-machi followed Ogata and greeted Hatsumitsu.

"It's our first meeting." Hatsumitsu returned the salute to Ogata and the others generously, "I've already heard about the introduction of the two of you by Satodaemon. Thank you very much for your timely help. It really helped us a lot."

If you talk about how stunning Chuguang's appearance is, that's not the case.Although she is beautiful, she is not yet stunning.

But she has a great temperament.Between gestures, exudes a very elegant temperament.Its temperament can make people quickly think of the idiom "knowledge and rationality".

From the way she speaks, and the etiquette that can't find any fault, it is not difficult to see that she has very good cultivation.

After seeing this girl with his own eyes, Ogata finally understood why this girl was able to become the top performer of Nanicaoya and was sought after by so many people.With both appearance and temperament, it is not easy for this kind of woman to become popular.

Chuguang didn't ask Ogata why he was wearing a bamboo hat and a face scarf, probably because Satodaemon had already told her the reason.

"Tonight, I will have the help of the two of you." After saying this, Chuguang smiled, holding the shamisen in his arms, and bowed to Ogata and Atachi again, neither humble nor overbearing.

"Hey, look, it's Chuguang."

"It's really beautiful"

"It's a pity that she won't be a prostitute"

"It would be great if she could be bigger than the bear"

"Huh? Why did Chuguang's assistant change?"

"Yeah, it seems that a guard has changed too. Chuguang's new assistant is really big."

After following Chuguang to leave the Seven Grass House, Ogata instantly felt that countless lines of sight concentrated on them.

What followed were all kinds of normal or obscene words.

Ogata knew that Chuguang's popularity was very high, but he didn't expect her popularity to be so high. It was just that she had just left the seven-grass house, and immediately a large number of people gathered around, looking at it as if they were looking at a rare animal. With seven herbs.

I have to say that Ah-cho is quite into the role.

At this time, A-machi was walking behind Chuguang, keeping a distance of about one step from Chuguang at all times, hugging Chuguang's extremely exquisite shamisen.

The appearance of A-Machi at this time has perfectly integrated into the role of Chuguang's assistant.

In terms of appearance, he is not inferior to Chuguang, but he is not as good as Chuguang in temperament, which also attracts the attention of many spectators.

As for Ogata, he and Shibata followed behind Chuguang.

Shibata's movements are quite professional, and he has been scanning the surroundings with a vigilant gaze. His left hand has been resting on the scabbard on the left waist, and his right hand is slightly raised, maintaining the most convenient movement for drawing the sword.

Because Shibata and Ogata were guarding Chuguang's rear, although many people surrounded him, none of them dared to approach Chuguang casually.